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Do you want to speak Portuguese? I think you want. Since you need to learn to speak Portuguese, what measures should you take in going on learning Portuguese? This is not an easy question to anwswer for most Portuguese learners. But today it is not that you should answer this question, but to solve this problem instead. But how can you really do that? When speaking your native language, you will never feel so difficult to express your meaning clearly, for you always use this langage in your daily life as well as your work and study. Assume that if you could do so in your second language like Portuguese, you must speak Portuguese as fluently as you can. But since most people cannot go abroad to experience this language, the most effective way is to make such an environment for yourself as the replica. If you are in your class, do your best to listen to your teacher and respond as quickly as you can. Off class, you can read your textbook for some certain minutes each day. When you meet the native Portuguese speakers and exchange ideas with them as you think appropriate. Or if you choose software to learn Portugese, you can use Rosetta Stone Portuguese to help you with your vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and sentence building or even writing. From all the means I have mentioned, you can try to use them to do your own business. But if you need to speak one foreign language as you speak your native language, you have to learn more things than what others usually think of. Language usually has so much association with culture. Even though you could manage all the things inside this language itself, you possibly could not speak this language as fluently as the natives. Why? The reason is that you haven't touched this language's culture as the natives have. How to demostrate this clearly? If you are an English native, you will often use so many traditional expressions to depict your ideas so that your friends and those listening to you can comprehend your meanings very well. But if you often use usch expressions while talking with the outsiders, you will feel strange that they cannot understand your meaning exactly as you wish. Why? Your language is filled with too many cultural points that the foreigners lack. You cannot reach the equivalent level that is needed. But you cannot feel this, for you have been accustomed to this and don't think it is something that needs avoiding while speaking with the non-native speakers even though you think they have very good English background. This is the same to the Portuguese learners. So if you need to learn Portugeuse more deeply, you will have to learn what things people in Portugal and Brazil usually do and what cultures they have in their lives, for even in one short sentence, you will find things related to history you have no idea about. At least today people prefer to speak Brazilian Portuguese, so you need to learn something of Brazil. You see Brazilians stress Carnivals so much and in this meeting people often dance. Actually you don't have to learn how to dance, but when people say "Samba", you should know wht it is and cab speak some of your ideas about this. Don't you think that's a good idea?
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